caution: wet paint

I really wish I had a 'before' picture I could post with this. Just imagine wood paneling, brown trim, and yellow ceilings. It's been a goal of mine to paint this room since we moved in, for two reasons.

First reason was to make it more appealing, in general. Now that the back door is fixed, we'll be entering and exiting the house through this now-mud-room. But it shouldn't LOOK like mud, I say.

Second, there is only one light fixture in this room (poor planning on our part for telling the electrician to cut the rest of the power to this room). So, the white will definitely help to make the most of the one light.

My hope is to get a new light fixture as well, to help. My thought is track lighting could do wonders.

Now we just need to paint the door (your son has chosen a beautiful red), and to put the room back in order, including a neat row of snow boots. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had dinner at my dad's today, with their neighbors (old family friends) and my brother, his wife, and my new little nephew! I can't get enough of the little guy. And I actually changed his diaper (first time ever), which Chris thoroughly enjoyed watching.

It's always nice to see their neighbors, the wife was very close with my mom, so we enjoy sharing stories. She always has stories I've never heard of some adventure they had years ago.

The weather has held off and it's almost 60 degrees, although I still brought my scarf and puffy coat, just in case.

Hope you guys had a very Happy Thanksgiving, too! Gobble gobble.

the smell of the ice

We went to a hockey game tonight, the league is full of young kids, several in high school.

The guys weren't excited to go, but I was very happy! I spent many nights growing up watching hockey there. And, of course, they enjoyed some good fights that broke out.

and on Sunday we do this...

The birds have discovered the window ledges. This morning they had some bagels and then enjoyed chirping at every fallen leaf that drifted by.

at the fair

I forgot I had taken this picture. We made a trip to the Crawford County Fair this August—it's the largest outdoor agricultural fair in Pennsylvania, to brag.

They had a rodeo in town that night, and we saw the bull-riding and some barrel racing. Great show!

After we made our way through the chickens, roosters and bunnies, I made Chris and D pose with the giant cows. They're my favorites by far!

so, I did a little experiment

I took some time to do some "timelines" of photos, and this is one of my favorites.